10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now

The inordinate growth of student loans - and its effect on the economy - is killing consumption (autos) and the housing sector. This is no short term dynamic, but will affect the economy for decades.

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The USA is a consumer driven economy. A study released this week authored by Meta Brown and Sydnee Caldwell stated:

As a result of tighter underwriting standards, higher delinquency rates, and lower credit scores, consumers with educational debt may have more limited access to housing and auto debt and, as a result, more limited options in the housing and vehicle markets, despite their comparatively high earning potential.

Both these factors-lowered expectations of future earnings and more limited access to credit-may have broad implications for the ongoing recovery of the housing and vehicle markets, and of U.S. consumer spending more generally. While highly skilled young workers have traditionally provided a vital influx of new, affluent consumers to U.S. housing and auto markets, unprecedented student debt may dampen their influence in today's marketplace.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.(GMCR)

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. engages in the specialty coffee and coffee maker business. The company sources, produces, and sells approximately 200 varieties of coffee, cocoa, teas, and other beverages in K-Cup portion packs and coffee in traditional packaging, including whole bean and ground coffee selections in bags and ground coffee in fractional packs for use in at-home (AH) and away-from-home (AFH). It sells its products primarily in North America through supermarkets, club stores, and convenience stores; in restaurants and hospitality; and to office coffee distributors, as well as directly to consumers through its Website. The company also manufactures gourmet single-cup brewing systems and brewing equipment. In addition, it sells AH single-cup brewers; accessories; and coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and other beverages in K-Cup portion packs, as well as offers other licensed roasters to retailers, department stores, and mass merchandisers. Further, the company sells AFH single-cup brewers to distributors for use in offices. It provides its products under the Van Houtte, Br�erie St. Denis, Br�erie Mont-Royal, and Orient Express brands, as well as licensed Bigelow and Wolfgang Puck brands. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Waterbury, Vermont.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Teresa Rivas]

  Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) was falling nearly 6% as investors digested its mixed after hours third-quarter report.

  Mondelez International (MDLZ) climbed 2.4% on its better-than-expected second-quarter earnings.

• [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET.COM]

  Green Mountain�� growth might be slowing, but with a strong management team in place, innovation and finding creative ways to move the stock price are possibilities. Of course, long-term investors would prefer to see innovation for more sustainable results.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Westbond Enterprises Corporatio (WBE.V)

WestBond Enterprises Corporation, together with its subsidiary, WestBond Industries Inc., manufactures and sells disposable paper products for medical, hygienic, and industrial uses primarily in Canada and the United States. Its product lines include clinical products consisting of sheets, drapes, examination table paper, gowns, aprons, chiropractor rolls, pillowcases, dental bibs, and dental head rest covers; personal hygiene products comprising jumbo roll bathroom tissues, conventional bathroom tissues, center pull towels, kraft roll towels, and single fold towels; long-term care products that include fold air laid wipes, roll air laid wipes, waterproof underlays, and mitts; and airline towels and pillowcases. The company markets its products directly to medium-sized janitorial contractors providing public washroom maintenance services, as well as to small and medium-sized distributors who sell to the janitorial market. WestBond Enterprises Corporation is headquartered i n Delta, Canada.

5 Best Oil Stocks To Buy Right Now: Oceanus Group Limited (579.SI)

Oceanus Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, breeding, production, and sale of Japanese breed abalones. It also engages in the vacuum packing, canning, drying, and/or curing of abalones for distribution worldwide. The company sells its products primarily to wholesalers in the People�s Republic of China and Hong Kong. Oceanus Group Limited is headquartered in Singapore.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: KERRY GROUP 'A'ORD EUR0.125(KYGA.L)

Kerry Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and delivers technology based ingredients, flavors, and integrated solutions for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries worldwide. It operates in two segments, Ingredients & Flavors and Consumer Foods. The Ingredients & Flavours segment manufactures and distributes application specific ingredients and flavors, such as savory ingredients, sweet ingredients, food coating systems, nutritional systems, and specialty protein applications. The Consumer Foods segment manufactures and supplies added value brands and customer branded foods to the Irish and the United Kingdom. This segment supplies its own brands and private label products, such as dairy spread and cheese products; meats and savory products; and chilled and frozen ready meals to retailers primarily under the Wall?s, Mattessons, Richmond, Pure, Denny, Galtee, Roscrea, Shaws, Ballyfree, Cheestrings, Charleville, Mitchelstown, LowLow, and Dairygold brand names. The company operates in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. Kerry Group plc was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Tralee, Ireland.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: MAPLE LEAF FOODS (MFI.TO)

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. operates as a meats, meals, and bakery company in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company operates through three segments: Meat Products Group, Agribusiness Group, and Bakery Products Group. The Meat Products Group segment offers value-added processed packaged meats; chilled meal entrees and lunch kits; and fresh pork, poultry, and turkey products. This segment sells its products to retail, foodservice, industrial, and convenience channels primarily under the brand names of Maple Leaf and Schneiders. The Agribusiness Group segment engages in the hog production. The Bakery Products Group segment offers fresh and frozen par-baked bakery products, including breads, rolls, bagels, specialty and artisan breads, sweet goods, and fresh pasta and sauces. This segment sells its products to retail, foodservice, and convenience channels under the brand names of Dempster�s, Tenderflake, Olivieri, and New York Bakery Co. The company was incorpora ted in 1927 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Johnson Outdoors Inc.(JOUT)

Johnson Outdoors Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets seasonal outdoor recreation products used primarily for fishing, diving, paddling, and camping. Its Marine Electronics segment offers battery powered fishing motors for trolling or primary propulsion; sonar and GPS equipment for fish finding and navigation; downriggers for controlled-depth fishing; leisure boat navigation technology; and lake charts. The company?s Outdoor Equipment segment provides consumer tents, sleeping bags, camping furniture, and other recreational camping products; commercial tents, such as party tents and accessories, including lighting systems, interior lining options, and mounting brackets; heavy-duty tents and lightweight backpacking tents for the military, including modular general purpose tents, rapid deployment shelters, and lightweight one and two person tents; and military tent accessories, such as fabric floors, as well as field compasses and digital instruments, and performance measurement instruments. This segment also acts as a subcontract manufacturer for other providers of military tents. It primarily serves camping and backpacking specialty stores, sporting goods stores, catalog and mail order houses, general rental stores, and tent erectors. Its Watercraft segment offers canoes, kayaks, accessories, paddles, and personal flotation devices. The company?s Diving segment manufactures and markets a line of underwater diving and snorkeling equipment, including regulators, buoyancy compensators, dive computers and gauges, wetsuits, masks, fins, snorkels, and accessories for technical and recreational divers. This segment also offers diving gear to dive training centers, aquariums, and resorts. Johnson Outdoors Inc. operates primarily in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Pacific Basin. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Marani Brands Inc (MRIB)

Marani Brands, Inc. (Marani), incorporated on May 30, 2001, is engaged in the importation and sale of alcoholic beverage products, primarily Marani Vodka, its flagship product. The Company�� primary business is the business of Margrit Enterprises International, Inc. (MEI), which is in the distribution of wine and spirit products manufactured in Armenia. Marani Vodka is made from winter wheat harvested in Armenia, distilled three times, aged in oak barrels lined with honey and skimmed dried milk, then filtered 25 times. Bottling of the product occurs at the Eraskh distillery in Armenia. On April 4, 2008, the Company, FFBI Merger Sub Corp. and MEI executed, and on April 7, 2008, the parties closed, a three party Merger Agreement.

The Company purchases all of its products from a single supplier, Eraskh Winery, Ltd., under an exclusive distribution agreement with Eraskh, an Armenian manufacturer of wine and other spirits. The new bottles for Marani Vodka are being manufactured in France by Saver Glass Company and China by Universal Group Co., Ltd. and shipped to Armenia to be filled at Eraskh. The Company�� product is being distributed by Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. (SWS), in Southern California, in conjuction with PLCB Pennsylvania and Nevada. SWS is an alcoholic beverage distributor in the United States. The Company has established additional distributors, such as QV Distributors in Arizona and Wein-Baur in Illinois.

The Company competes with Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Bacardi and Brown-Forman.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: AEP Industries Inc.(AEPI)

AEP Industries Inc. engages in the production, manufacture, and distribution of plastic packaging products in the United States and Canada. The company offers a line of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. Its products include custom films for industrial applications, including sheeting, tubing, and bags; films that protect items stored outdoors or in transit, such as boats and cars; a range of shrink films, barrier films, and overwrap films; stretch film products for hand wrap and rotary applications; and pre stretch and high performance products for commodity and specialty uses. The company also provides food wraps products, including blown plastic film fold-top bags, twist-tie bags, and food containers under the Seal Wrap brand for the supermarket and industrial markets; a range of coextruded polyolefin films and monolayer films for food, pharmaceutical, and medical appli cations; and canliners product line comprising trash bags and institutional bags. In addition, it offers printed rollstock to the food and beverage industries, and manufacturing and distributing companies; and unplasticized polyvinyl chloride films for use in battery labels, twist films, and credit card laminates; and various film products with agricultural applications, such as silage, smooth mulch films, and fumigation films. Further, the company provides disposable consumer and institutional plastic products, which include table covers and skirts, aisle runners, aprons, bibs, gloves, boots, freezer/storage bags, saddle pack bags, locker wrap and custom imprint designs for the food service, party supply, and school/collegiate markets under the Sta-Dri brand. AEP Industries Inc. markets its products directly to end-users, as well as through distributors. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Brian Pacampara]

  What: Shares of plastic packaging manufacturer AEP Industries (NASDAQ: AEPI  ) sank 14% today after its quarterly results and outlook disappointed Wall Street.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Dukang Distillers Hldgs Ltd (GJ8.SI)

Dukang Distillers Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of baijiu products in the People�s Republic of China. It offers various baijiu products under the Dukang and Siwu brands through distributors primarily to supermarkets, flagship stores, specialty stores, and restaurants. The company was formerly known as Trump Dragon Distillers Holdings Limited and changed its name to Dukang Distillers Holdings Limited in May 2010. Dukang Distillers Holdings Limited is based in Zhengzhou City, the People�s Republic of China.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Attitude Drinks Inc (ATTD)

Attitude Drinks Incorporated (Attitude), incorporated on May 10, 1988, is a brand-development company. The Company focuses on the non-alcoholic single serving beverage business, developing and marketing of milk based products in two segments: sports recovery and functional dairy. The Company does not directly manufacture its products but instead outsources the manufacturing process to third party packers.

Attitude has developed its second product, which is branded as Phase III Recovery is a milk-based protein drink which is available in chocolate and vanilla flavors. The Company�� co-packer for its dairy based product is O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative, Inc. in Batavia, New York. This product contains 35 grams of protein that are inherent in filtered milk. The product is packaged as a retort-processed shelf stable dairy-based 100% milk-based sports recovery drink in both chocolate and vanilla flavors.

The Company competes with The Coca-Cola Company and Pepsico Inc.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  Small cap stocks Attitude Drinks Inc (OTCMKTS: ATTD), Axiologix, Inc (OTCMKTS: AXLX) and Unisource Corporation (OTCMKTS: USRC) have all been getting some attention lately in investment emails or investor alerts thanks in part to paid promotions. And while there is nothing wrong with properly disclosed paid promotions or investor relations activity, such activity can backfire on unwary investors or traders. With that in mind, here is a closer look at all three small cap stocks to help you decide whether they are truly hot or not:

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Farmer Brothers Company(FARM)

Farmer Bros. Co. engages in the manufacture, wholesale, and distribution of coffee, tea, and culinary products. Its product line includes roasted coffee; liquid coffee; and coffee related products, such as coffee filters, sugar and creamers, assorted teas, cappuccino, cocoa, spices, gelatins and puddings, soup, gravy and sauce mixes, pancake and biscuit mixes, and jellies and preserves. The company distributes its products through direct and brokered sales to institutional foodservice establishments, including restaurants, hotels, casinos, hospitals, and foodservice providers, as well as retailers, such as convenience stores, coffee houses, general merchandisers, private label retailers, and grocery stores in the United States. Farmer Bros. Co. was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Torrance, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Eric Volkman]

  Farmer Brothers (NASDAQ: FARM  ) has a new top financial executive. The company has appointed Mark Nelson to its CFO and treasurer positions, effective April 15. He will initially be assisted by, then replace, interim Treasurer and CFO Jeffrey Wahba.�

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Tsingyuan Brewery Ltd (BEER)

Tsingyuan Brewery Ltd., formerly Sabre Industrial, Inc., incorporated on July 25, 1996, is a manufacturer and distributor of brewer's malt and beer throughout northern and eastern China. The Company has two business lines: brewer's malt and beer production.

The brewer's malt is shipped to brewers in 10 provinces across China. The beer products are distributed throughout six provinces. The Company utilizes the German brewing techniques and uses barley, water and hops. Tsingyuan Brewery Ltd. promotes nine products under its brand names Qinglin, Qingyi, and Qingyuan.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: PREMIER FOODS ORD GBP0.01(PFD.L)

Premier Foods plc engages in manufacturing, processing, and distributing branded and retailer branded food products. The company operates in three divisions: Grocery, Hovis, and Chilled. The Grocery division offers grocery products, including cakes, soups, vegetables, stocks, gravies, spreads, desserts, home baking, cooking sauces, Asian meals, pickles, and beverages. It also provides noodles, rice, pasta, baked beans, vinegar, instant mash potatoes, custard and milk products, desserts, preserves, marmalades, honey and lemon curd, peanut butter, powdered milk creamer, Asian sauces and condiments, salt, stuffing mixes, suet, flours, and baking mixes, as well as small cakes and jam tarts, fruit pies, whole cakes, Swiss rolls, mini rolls, and cake bars. This division sells its products primarily under Batchelors, Mr Kipling, Bisto, Ambrosia, Branston, Sharwood?s, Hartley?s, Loyd Grossman, Oxo, Lyons, and Cadbury brand names. The Hovis division provides wrapped bread, frozen part-baked products, morning goods, and frozen pizza bases; and a range of bulk and bagged flours. This division offers its products primarily under Hovis, Granary, and Mother?s Pride brand names. The Chilled division offers chilled ready meals, celebration cakes, Christmas puddings, and chilled desserts under Brookes and Avana brand names. It serves multiple retailers, wholesalers, foodservice providers, food manufacturers, cash and carry depots, and convenience stores primarily in the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe. Premier Foods plc is headquartered in St Albans, the United Kingdom.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Nestle SA (NESN)

Nestle SA is a Swiss Company engaged in the nutrition, health and wellness sectors. It is the holding company of the Nestle Group, which comprises subsidiaries, associated companies and joint ventures throughout the world. It has such business units as Food and Beverage, Nestle Waters and Nestle Nutrition. It is also active in the pharmaceutical sector. It divides its products into Powdered and liquid beverages, Water, Milk products and Ice cream, Nutrition, Prepared dishes and cooking aids, Confectionery, PetCare and Pharmaceutical products. In February 2011, the Company acquired CM&D Pharma Ltd. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Corinne Gretler]

  Swiss stocks fell for a second day, their first back-to-back losses this month, as Nestle (NESN) SA retreated after reporting slower growth in sales.

• [By Celeste Perri]

  Nestle SA (NESN) is selling Givaudan (GIVN) SA shares worth $1.27 billion at yesterday�� closing price to institutional investors, winding down its stake in the world�� largest flavorings maker.

• [By Chad Fraser]

  These are the first significant moves made by the Caira, a former executive at Nestle SA (NYSE: NESN) who helped expand that company’s hot and cold beverage division.

10 Best Consumer Stocks To Watch Right Now: Sonoco Products Company(SON)

Sonoco Products Company provides industrial and consumer packaging products, and packaging services worldwide. It offers composite paperboard cans; paperboard packages; fiber cartridges; layered bottles and jars; laminated tubs, cups, and spools; consumer and institutional trays; and aluminum, steel, and peelable membrane easy-open closures, as well as flexible packaging, product design, tool design, fabrication, and manufacturing services. The company also produces paperboard tubes, cores, roll packaging, molded plugs, pallets, pallet components, concrete forms, rotary die boards, recycled paperboard, chipboard, tube board, lightweight corestock, boxboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, specialty grades, and recovered paper products; and steel, nailed wooden, plywood, recycled, and polyfiber reels, as well as recycles old corrugated container, paper, plastic, metal, and glass materials. In addition, it manufactures custom-printed glass covers and coasters; offers custom packing, fulfillment, and primary package filling services, as well as operates scalable service centers; contract packaging, co-packing, and fulfillment services; and temporary, semipermanent, and permanent point-of-purchase displays. Further, the company provides fabricated foam, corrugated paperboard, molded EPS and EPP, antistatic fabricated foam solutions, nesting and stacking trays, molded foam dunnage, totes and tote inserts, energy-absorbing and flotation components, and insulation components, as well as contract package testing service. Additionally, it offers insulated shippers, durable transport chests, gel packs, phase change materials, lab/pharma/diagnostic specimen transport, refrigerant materials, edge and corner protection, and temperature assurance solutions; high-visibility packaging and printed products; and blister packaging machines. The company, formerly known as Southern Novelty Company, was founded in 1899 and is based in Hartsville, South Carolina. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  Hartsville, S.C.-based Sonoco Products (NYSE: SON  ) is hiking prices on its signature product: cardboard.

  On Friday, Sonoco announced an across-the-board price hike on "all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) products by $40 per ton, effective with shipments in the�United States and Canada�beginning July 8, 2013." The company's Primary Materials Group, North America, Vice President Marty Pignone�explained that "the�price increase�is necessary to recover rising recovered paper and other raw materials costs."